Which hosting company should you use? Should you try all of
them to find out which one is the best? Of course not. That`s
why we are here.

With hundreds if not thousands of hosting companies online it can and it will be difficult to
know which hosting companies truly provide an excellent hosting solution for an acceptable
price. When you have an established domain name with a good web hosting company, you can
get reports on your traffic and which of your pages your customers are visiting most often, as
well as many other statistics.

Your web host will charge you a fee for monthly service that ranges from $10 or $20 to the
more expensive $50.00 per month. Plan to pay between $300 and $500 per year to your web
host. Of course, if you just want personal blog there is possibility to pass way cheaper. As a
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Next, make sure that your hosting company can accommodate e-commerce and storefronts,
blogs, forums, chats, online interactive helps and anything else you want to add onto your site.
Just make sure that it has cPanel management platform included and you`ll be OK.

Estimate what your growth needs are and ensure that hosting company can serve you as you
grow. The last thing you want to do is change host mid way unless you absolutely have to do
so.

Check your bandwidth capability to be sure that, if your website traffic grows rapidly, your
customers will have to wait to download or view information. And the last thing customer
wants is to wait for page to open.

Couple of things to look for in a hosting company are:

Reliability and speed of access
Not only should the web host be reliable and fast, it should guarantee its uptime (the time
when it is functional). Look for a minimum uptime of 99%.In fact, even 99%is actually too low
- it really should be 99.5%or higher. The host should provide some sort of refund (eg prorated
refund or discount) if it falls below that figure.
Data Transfer (Traffic/Bandwidth)
Data transfer (sometimes loosely referred to as "traffic" or "bandwidth") is the amount of
bytes transferred from your site to visitors when they browse your site.
Don't believe any commercial web host that advertises "unlimited bandwidth". The host has to
pay
Disk space
Most sites need less than 10 MB of web space, so even if you are provided with a host that
tempts you with 200 MB or 500 MB (or "unlimited space"), be aware that you are unlikely to
use that space, so don't let the 500 MB spacebe too big a factor in your consideration when
comparing with other web hosts.
Technical support
Doesits technical support function 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (often abbreviated 24/7), all
year around? Note that I will not accept a host which does not have staff working on weekends
or public holidays. You will be surprised at how often things go wrong at the most
inconvenient of times. Incidentally, just becausea host advertises that it has 24/7 support does
not necessarily mean that it really has that kind of support..

FTP, PHP, Perl, SSI, .htaccess, telnet, SSH, MySQL, crontabs
If you are paying for a site, you really should make sure you have all of these.

As we used a lot of them, I can give you a recommendation for some of them:
1. HostGator – what to say. 2 500 000 million websites on their servers. Good prices,

almost everything unlimited
2. CoolHandle Hosting –

Web hosting starting at $4.95/month with unlimited
bandwidth and unlimited domains. Ideal for starters. If you grow big you can rent
virtual or dedicated server from them.

3. ReliaCloud – I only put them here because they have great prices for virtual and

dedicated servers. Good thing is that you can try it as they have rentals by hour. Most
of the Operating systems is at your disposal. Great service. Can say becauseI am using it
now.
4. NetHosting – good service and some very innovative hosting models

Each one of this will give you the least headaches, and trust me, this is something that you will
know to appreciate.

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